Random Traveling Salesman with Time Windows Instance Generator

Description

Generate integer-coordinate cities, ceiling-Euclidean travel times in abstract time units, fixed customer service times and inclusive windows around a feasible randomized depot-return tour; no optimality or real routing claim.

An optimization instance defines choices, constraints, and an objective. A feasible witness demonstrates that its stated constraints can be met; it establishes optimality only when the tool actually computes and verifies an optimum.

When to use this tool

Use this generator to create reproducible traveling salesman time windows instance cases from the supplied model or bank. Inspect the returned evidence before using cases in a test or exercise.

How to use the tool and how it works

Supply cityCount, minimumCoordinate, maximumCoordinate, serviceDuration, windowSlack in the field shapes below. Set seed when you need an explicit replay.
Run the tool and correct any input error. For generated controls, distinguish a successful fixture containing an invalid case from failure to generate the fixture.
Read points, travelTimes, serviceDurations, timeWindows, tour, arrivalTimes, returnTime. Use the conventions below and keep answer-bearing fields separate when presenting an exercise.

Draw integer-coordinate cities and round Euclidean distances upward into integer travel times. Shuffle a depot-return tour, add customer service durations, and place inclusive time windows around that tour’s arrival times; return its schedule as a feasible witness.^[1]

Input field	Meaning and units	Accepted input
cityCount	City Count	Required. Safe integer; minimum 2; maximum 64.
minimumCoordinate	Minimum Coordinate	Required. Safe integer.
maximumCoordinate	Maximum Coordinate	Required. Safe integer.
serviceDuration	Service Duration	Required. Safe integer; minimum 0; maximum 9007199254740991.
windowSlack	Window Slack	Required. Safe integer; minimum 0; maximum 9007199254740991.
seed	Optional numeric seed; takes precedence over context randomness. Without either, use the fixed tool.io default seed.	Optional. Safe integer.

Output field	Interpretation	Returned shape
points	Points	Required. Array of Array of Safe integer.; minimum items 2; maximum items 2.; minimum items 2; maximum items 64.
travelTimes	Travel Times	Required. Array of Array of Safe integer; minimum 0; maximum 9007199254740991.; minimum items 2; maximum items 64.; minimum items 2; maximum items 64.
serviceDurations	Service Durations	Required. Array of Safe integer; minimum 0; maximum 9007199254740991.; minimum items 2; maximum items 64.
timeWindows	Time Windows	Required. Array of Array of Safe integer; minimum 0; maximum 9007199254740991.; minimum items 2; maximum items 2.; minimum items 2; maximum items 64.
tour	Tour	Required. Array of Safe integer; minimum 0; maximum 63.; minimum items 2; maximum items 65.
arrivalTimes	Arrival Times	Required. Array of Safe integer; minimum 0; maximum 9007199254740991.; minimum items 3; maximum items 65.
returnTime	Return Time	Required. Safe integer; minimum 0; maximum 9007199254740991.
randomness	Replay metadata: source is seed or context; seed is the normalized 32-bit seed or null for a context source.	Required. Object; no unknown keys.
randomness.seed	Optional numeric replay seed; normalization and precedence are explained below.	Required. Safe integer. or Null.
randomness.source	Source	Required. Text; one of "context", "seed".

An explicit safe-integer seed takes precedence over injected context randomness and is normalized to an unsigned 32-bit integer. With no seed and no context source, replay uses the fixed tool.io default seed. A context source must return finite values from zero inclusive to one exclusive; its advancing state must be retained separately. randomness records the source and normalized seed, or null for context. These generators are not cryptographic random sources.

json

{
  "input": {
    "cityCount": 4,
    "minimumCoordinate": -10,
    "maximumCoordinate": 10,
    "serviceDuration": 2,
    "windowSlack": 3,
    "seed": 42
  },
  "output": {
    "points": [
      [
        2,
        -1
      ],
      [
        7,
        4
      ],
      [
        -7,
        1
      ],
      [
        -5,
        3
      ]
    ],
    "travelTimes": [
      [
        0,
        8,
        10,
        9
      ],
      [
        8,
        0,
        15,
        13
      ],
      [
        10,
        15,
        0,
        3
      ],
      [
        9,
        13,
        3,
        0
      ]
    ],
    "serviceDurations": [
      0,
      2,
      2,
      2
    ],
    "timeWindows": [
      [
        0,
        56
      ],
      [
        24,
        30
      ],
      [
        7,
        13
      ],
      [
        39,
        45
      ]
    ],
    "tour": [
      0,
      2,
      1,
      3,
      0
    ],
    "arrivalTimes": [
      0,
      10,
      27,
      42,
      53
    ],
    "returnTime": 53,
    "randomness": {
      "seed": 42,
      "source": "seed"
    }
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

Time units are abstract and supplied slack controls windows. The witness need not be optimal and does not model real travel conditions, road restrictions or an operational dispatch schedule.
A replay requires the same complete input and implementation. Randomized construction does not guarantee uniform coverage of every feasible output; finite samples can repeat unless a distinct-selection rule is explicitly stated.
The field tables state structural bounds; cross-field constraints and bounded search or output budgets also apply. Unknown keys are rejected where the object contract disallows them. Input errors are distinct from null fields and deliberate invalid controls in a successful output.

Alternative or Complementary methods

For a supplied example, inspect the returned construction or delegated check directly. To evaluate a consumer, also test cases chosen for its own boundaries; a generated finite corpus does not establish exhaustive coverage.

References

Tool behavior and example: Random Traveling Salesman With Time Windows Instance Generator — tool.io

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